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The first week of June my husband traveled to DC for 3 nights for a conference for work. The first night he was gone the kids were sad to see him leave. They didnt like the idea of not seeing him for four days. The day he got home it was so late they were in bed so it was one extra day before they got to see him. Back to that first night … I told them they could lay down with me before we went to bed for book time since they were missing their dad.

Well, we fell asleep together and I didn’t have the heart to move them so I let them stay there. We started with each of us on a pillow laying in a normal position. In the morning I was jockeying for space and trying not to fall off the bed. This was how I found them! Needless to say, they spend the rest of the week while daddy was gone in their own beds!!

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One of my favorite subjects to photograph are my kids when they are sleeping. As an adult, when you get into a funky position in your sleep you end up with a knot in your neck or shoulder making it impossible to turn your head in a certain direction without sharp pains. I’m literally dealing with that right now as I write this post and I have had this knot for about a week now.

As a child, we slept in the funniest positions and yet never end up with kinks in our bodies. Ah to be that elastic again! But, back to my point. When I find my kids in that type of position, I try to be as quiet as possible and get a photo of them. That is how this photo ended up being day 230’s photo. Just looking at the way my son’s neck is twisted makes me want to rub mine! It might be time to move him to a toddler bed soon. He is growing so fast.

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I am really happy with the photo for today. It was the last photo I took before going to bed. Its interesting, because I had one other shot that I thought I might use. The day started with the kids waking us up at 5 a.m. Since we didnt want to get out of bed just yet, we let them crawl in with us. They immediately fell back asleep! An hour later we needed to get up and ready for work. While we were getting ready we noticed they had both moved onto our pillows like it was their bed. Of course, I ran to get the camera and took a shot. I thought, well that was easy, I am done for the day.

I decided not to take my camera to work that day thinking I had already gotten the shot I wanted. When we were at home in the evening, we had dinner together and then we spent some time cuddling with the kids on the couch before putting them to bed. My daughter fell asleep next to her daddy while I was with our son. After I put him down, I walked back into the living room to find her sucking on her fingers. I decided to take a photo of it, not really thinking of my project.

We actually, have this thing in our family; my husband and I take photos of each other sleeping. Its weird but we laugh about all the funny poses we end up in. Most of the time our dog is with us too! We’ve continued that with our children. I have so many photos of them asleep.

When I saw this one while processing my photos, I liked it so much better than the one I took at the beginning of the day, that I decided to use it.